A CNN commentator called out Democrat elitists by saying, they have become “smarty pants, tea and crumpets elitist college educated progressives looking down their nose at everyone else especially blue collar, non college educated people.” Political clericalism anyone?
These smarty pants Democrats have betrayed Catholics and the Catholic Church in general. They pandered more to the “nones” that those engaged in their Catholic Faith and have made abortion their sacrament.
Vice President Harris has a track record of anti-Catholic sentiments. I bet she now regrets not going to the New York Catholic Gala and sent a stupid, insulting to Catholics video! I bet she regrets telling a Christian who shouted “Jesus is Lord” at one of her rallies, that he was at the wrong rally!
The elitists of the smarty pants cabal of leaders in the Democrat party are:
1. Celebrities who think people love their ideas and political opinions, Oprah being the biggest problem
2. Aging democrats from another era, like the two Obamas, Pelosi, the Clintons. Did I say Pelosi? Talk about someone who is out of touch and did more in the last two days of the Harris’ campaign to do her in.
3. And their rhetoric, by calling supporters of President Trump and Trump himself, fascists, Nazis, trash, baskets of deplorables, threats to democracy, unfit, and so on and so on.
4. Taking jobs away from blue collar workers and expecting them to do dainty jobs that require educational and personal skills they do not have, thus leaving them in danger of going homeless and not able to support their families
5. Thinking that solar panels, windmills and only electric cars will change the climate.
6. Democrats call practicing pro-life Catholics who are pro-life, abortion phobic. They continue to call everyone out as being phobic on every stupid ideology they support, from LGBTQ+++++ stupidity to masculinity, which they call toxic and pro-life people who they call backwards and a threat to women’s freedom! They want men in girl’s bathrooms, locker rooms and on their teams.
One Democrat commenters on my blog is a prime example of Democrat condescension. This is what he wrote: “ The pope did not frame the election as you suggest. Your reading skills, as you often exhibit, are poor and tend to be self-serving. 2. "Half the nation" would be 165 million. Only 138 million voted, so "half the nation" is more than a slight exaggeration. 21% of the nation voted Trump. Poor math skills to go with the reading problems...” That commenter departed America before the election for an exotic vacation, not realizing that the America he will soon return to has completely changed and his party is in complete meltdown because of themselves. There is no one else to blame!
Tea and crumpet democrats who look down their noses at those who disagree with them both in their own party and those who are of other parties, especially those who support President Trump.
God and what He has created will not be mocked and Divine retribution is always a possibility especially at the Final Consummation of the world and the Last Judgement which climate change may well be a harbinger!
President Trump’s landslide victory over Democrat stupidity and clericalism can be seen as a sign of God’s Divine Retribution, no?
11 comments:
‘Half the country’ when referring to voting would be correctly understood as half the eligible voters, not half the total population. So I agree with your statement, FrAJM.
Father McDonald:
Once they get past all the recriminations and frantic analyses for their defeat, the Democrats clearly have much soul searching to do. This said, some of your points seem rather unfair. To begin with two points in your introductory comments: First, to generalize and say that Democrats have made abortion their “sacrament” is inflammatory and just plain wrong. Most voters in this country have a different view regarding abortion than the Catholic Church does, as so many ballot initiatives have now made clear. We should try to understand their reasons, to engage them respectfully with persuasive rational arguments, and to exhibit a loving, caring response to women who face an unwanted pregnancy. Second, if you research the matter, it remains unclear to which specific remarks Kamala Harris was responding when suggesting those shouting out were at the wrong rally.
Regarding your enumerated points:
1. The worship of entertainment and sports celebrities in this country is pathetic and immature, but it isn’t just Democrats, is it?
2. To be sure, these aging Democrats need to make way for fresh blood and a younger generation who are more in touch with the American people.
3. Nor only did Kamala Harris distance herself from Biden’s garbled attempt to counter that comedian’s vile racist joke about Puerto Rico at the Trump rally, but grammar, syntax, and context strongly suggest Biden wasn’t referring to Trump’s supporters as “garbage” anyway. Moreover, the comments about threats to democracy, fascism, etc. were mostly directed at Trump himself. And you overlook that such comments were also made by his own former chief of staff, General John Kelly, and other conservatives.
4. I agree one hundred percent. This is the central thrust of Bernie Sanders’ critique of the Democratic establishment. Of course, the pre-MAGA Republican Party was just as complicit. I will address this further in a later post.
5. Agreed, but alternative energy sources will help. And let’s not forget, electric cars have also helped Trump supporter and bankroller Elon Musk become the wealthiest man in the world. Talk about elites! They are just different, albeit partially overlapping, elites from the Democrat elites.
6. I agree that the LGBTQ +++++ ideology is too extreme. As I have said before, I can’t keep up. But it is still important to try to understand LGBT+++++ concerns and perspectives and then, when and as appropriate, to seek to persuade by rational argument. As for masculinity, well, some of it IS toxic, not to mention juvenile. IMHO one of the reasons, but only one reason, Harris was defeated is that America is still too adolescent to elect a woman. One day, hopefully it will grow up enough to recognize that women are just as capable of leading this country as men. This lesson has been learned in so many other countries, both developed and developing; it is past time for America to catch up. Also, viewed from one perspective, the purist pro-life position IS a threat to women’s freedom. The abortion issue involves a conflict of values, both respectable. See my first point about your opening remarks. Moreover, some of the anti-abortion legislation has been so poorly drafted that in at least a few cases medical professionals have refused to treat women suffering miscarriages or a dying fetus for fear that they might be prosecuted, resulting in the woman’s death from sepsis. This too is wrong, and the legislation should be amended to prevent such an outcome. Regarding the transgender issue, check out Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton’s recent remarks and the strong response they evoked:
https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/11/08/massachusetts-democrat-seth-moulton-facing-heat-for-abhorrent-trans-comments-after-election-find-another-job/
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With respect to your concluding remarks, again I have two points. First, the instance of “Democratic condescension” you quote was probably an attempt to get the facts straight. Facts and truth matter. To that point, I watched several Trump campaign ads that were extremely deceptive, with lies and even omitting words from sentences to make it appear that Harris said the opposite of what she in fact said. I abhor dishonesty and cheating, both of which the Trump campaign engaged in much more than did the Harris campaign. Some might not care about these things, but all Catholics should. Lying, too, is an intrinsic evil. Second, I agree completely that God will not be mocked. Nor will He have His Holy Name taken in vain and opportunistically used for base political advantage. Trump now claims, and is seen by many of his supporters, to have been anointed by God. We will see how that plays out. Perhaps you are implying that God may be chastising us not only through climate change but through Trump? I do know this, though—in war it is common for each party to claim that God is on their side. This is, of course, a logical impossibility, even assuming God takes sides in war—which I don’t believe; instead, I believe God weeps as, surely, He is weeping now over the desecration committed by both sides in the Holy Land.
Mark J.
Further to my response to your enumerated point 4, I wrote the following in my 2021 book “Professions and Politics in Crisis” (at pages 7-8):
“I still believe in the grand liberal project of achieving peace and prosperity through the activity of international institutions promoting economic integration among nation states. This said, I have also long considered that a certain reductionist and naïve view of human nature and an excess of ideological zeal in pursuing the integrationist vision (and related visions such as that of American neo-conservatism), combined with an undue concern with maximizing corporate profits at the expense of other important interests, has caused the relevant elites to choose unwise means in pursuit of a worthy end. In short, the elites got ahead of themselves and, more consequentially, they got ahead of ordinary people. The rise of reactionary “Trumpian populism” in the United States and analogous movements elsewhere in the Western world should be no great surprise”
Mark J.
Bravo Fr. Mc Donald! Well said! "Basta"! as TJM used to say. Thank you so much!
Unfortunately, I am now deleting most of TJM’s comments as he continues to obsess on one priest who comments here and denigrates people in his comments especially through name-calling. If he could only critique ideas and promote a Catholic apologetic without hateful speech about persons, he would be much better off and I would be happy to print cogent arguments that shore up his point of view. I understand he is a lawyer, but on this blog I’m the judge, here comes the judge, and I can and will overrule! :)
As it concerns abortion and the Democrat party’s unbridled support of it even in the 9th month and up to birth, that party should and must be condemned and I believe, from a moral point of view, that it puts the Democrat party on par with the KKK and other Fascist movements that not only promote hate for one or more categories of people, but advocate death as the solution for a pregnant woman’s problem being the child in her womb. It is unacceptable from a moral point of view. I am glad the pope underscored that in most elections today we have to choose between the lesser of two evils. If the vote was between Hitler and Mussolini, Mussolini would be the lesser of two evils. I do not believe he had any death camps in Italy. We can’t say that about the direction of the Democrat Party, once the party for the majority of Catholics, when it comes to abortion and enabling hitmen to carry it out.
I appreciate Father McDonald's holy and powerful defense of unborn babies.
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Mark J has demonstrated frequently that there are circumstances during which a Catholic who voted for, example, pro-abortion Biden-Harris, and now, pro-abortion Harris-Walz, would remain in good standing with Holy Mother Church. For that matter, that would apply as well to a Catholic who voted for pro-abortion President-elect Donald Trump.
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In regard to politics: Differences exist among Catholics. For example, I differ from Father McDonald in that my conscience did not permit me to have voted for Donald Trump. I differ from Mark J in that my conscience did not permit me to have voted for Kamala Harris.
Nevertheless, as Catholics, we are called to treat each other in charitable fashion.
Mark J does so. Father McDonald is charitable as well. If anything, in my experience, Father, is a rarity among those who operate blogs. That is, Father does not demand that his readers march in lockstep with him.
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May we as brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ treat each other in charitable fashion. I must improve upon that.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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